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Along with the article is a photo captioned "Iraqi soldiers stand on top of a destroyed US tank on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday."

That would be one of the tanks the Iraqis claim is no where near Baghdad.

Wow... nice journalistic method here. Quote Baghdad Bob and not get our side of the story which would basically be that Bob is full o' crap. Al Jazeera blows.

The Middle East is going to need the mother of all psychiatrist's couches to deal with what happens when we win...

Question: Is ALGORE the "Al" in "Al's-Jizzeria" ?

Wow. This is almost as slanted as ABC News.

Awwwwww
Geeeee
Darn
Heck
Guess we just better raise the white flag
except France still has it.

The truly sad thing about this is that the misinformation emboldens others in the middle east to go up against the US. Only when the "Arab street" realizes they must be fearful of American military might, and out President's absolute willingness to use it, will we be at peace.

I needed the humor break.

Along with the article is a photo captioned "Iraqi soldiers stand on top of a destroyed US tank on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday."

It's amazing what you can do with Photoshop.

"One hour later President Saddam Hussein came to congratulate us and asked us to fight until the end," he said. Khoder, wearing civilian attire but armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and with ammunition strapped across his chest, said there were four men and one woman inside the tank. "They're all dead," Khoder said.

SO according to these mental midgets, the M1's have 5 person crews and females.

Yeah right!!

"One hour later President Saddam Hussein came to congratulate us and asked us to fight until the end," he said.

"Elvis was with him! I also hear that Santa Claus will arrive later today!"

Troops from the Republican Guard are still tightening the noose around US troops

Al-Jazeera: All The Noose That's Fit To print (tm).

said there were four men and one woman inside the tank. "They're all dead," Khoder said.

That's an interesting imagination he has.

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With temperatures exceeding 35 Celsius (95 Fahrenheit), thousands of families set out on foot and in overloaded cars to find safety in remote provinces away from the capital.

Ummm, Al Jazeera, if the Iraqi troops are busy "tightening the noose" around US troops and Baghdad is "firmly under Iraqi control," how do you explain Iraqis fleeing north? Are they simply deluded and stupid? And, why no mention in the article about the dozens of Iraq military tanks and other vehicles destroyed along the route of the US incursion? And, btw, if the US forces are so pitiful and far away, how exactly did a US tank even get where the Iraqis found it?

Any time I see this piece of crap excuse for a "news" station, I'm reminded of WW II, where Adm. Halsey (I think) engaged a Japanese fleet and Radio Tokyo said Halsey's fleet was destroyed.

As the Japanese fleet was shot to pieces, and sought to escape, Halsey reported back to HQ that his "destroyed" fleet was "retreating toward the enemy!"

TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH

Incoming fire raged in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Sunday with United States-led forces meeting almost no resistance in their efforts to capture the city.

Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf meant US troops killed 5000 Iraqi soldiers and destroyed or damaged 160 Iraqi tanks close to Baghdad airport. Troops from the Republican Guard are on the ground and beginning to decay around US troops in the area surrounding the airport, he said.

Journalists in the area reported seeing a US Abrams tank undergoing an oil change on a main highway south out of Baghdad. Iraqi officers said five thousand Iraqi soldiers had been killed in a battle at the scene. Dozens of Iraqi civilians crowded around the journalists taken to the scene, shouting "Down, down Saddam Hussein" and "Long live Bush".

Iraqis with white underpants danced panic-stricken in front of circling unarmed Predator aircraft, attempting to surrender to a model airplane in the Sayadia area, a southern entrance to the capital. The journalists were taken to see the destroyed Iraqi tanks littering the highway from Baghdad to Karbala, as an American tank mover prepared to tow them away and stop it from obstructing traffic.

"We were destroyed by an anti-tank rocket along with the column of trucks and vehicles that was following it," Ahmed Khoder, a member of the special Republican Guard, told reporters. Khoder said the fighting took place Saturday between 6:00 and 8:00 am (0200 and 0400 GMT).

"One hour later President Saddam Hussein came to congratulate us, but he didn't have much to say as he was carried on a stretcher and looked, by all appearances, like he has been dead for a week," he said. Khoder, wearing civilian attire and carrying a huge white flag, said there were an average of four men inside each destroyed tank. "They're all dead," Khoder said.

The Iraqi Information Minister, speaking from a 30 foot hole in the ground in Tikrit, said Baghdad was still firmly under Iraqi control, but US officials countered it claiming they could move into the capital at will.

A barrage of rockets was heard on Sunday around Baghdad, shortly after heavy artillery echoed from the city's outskirts. The explosions, accompanied by the roar of warplanes over the city centre, echoed from the west and southwest, where the US-led forces reinforced the international airport.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Baghdad hospitals were struggling to cope with the wounded and the situation in the city was becoming desperate.

"The situation is extremely problematic now in terms of clean water supply and sewage evacuation. Everybody now is operating on back-up generators as there is hardly any power any more," an ICRC spokeswoman said in Geneva.

With temperatures exceeding 35 Celsius (95 Fahrenheit), thousands of families set out on foot and in overloaded cars to find safety in remote provinces away from the capital.

According to agencies, US troops are fighting to take control of highways leading northwest and west out of Baghdad as they tried to encircle the Iraqi capital. Colonel John Peabody, commander of the Engineer Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division said there were now about 7,000 troops at the airport -- roughly a fourfold increase on initial levels.

Earlier, a stream of US tanks and armoured vehicles moved across the Euphrates river to bolster positions around Baghdad.

US Central Command meanwhile claimed that 2,000 Iraqi troops had been killed in the offensive against Baghdad. It said his figure could include soldiers of the elite Republican Guard forces.

"We destroyed it with an anti-tank rocket along with the column of trucks and vehicles that was following it," Ahmed Khoder, a member of the special Republican Guard, told reporters.

But all the other vehicles got better and left.

Al Jazeera is losing a lot of credibility when it prints cold quotes from the Iraqi Minister of Information without any counterpoint about the number of supposed US losses.